Bonjour Printing and Internet Sharing battle.

I use my MBP as a wireless router in my dorm room, so I have internet sharing on from ethernet to wifi. I also have a printer connected to it. My roommate uses my printer, so to make things a lot easier, I turned on printer sharing, and he downloaded Bonjour for his (pitiful) Windows computer. However, when he uses bonjour to print over the wireless network, internet sharing blows up and my iPod can connect to the wireless network, but is unable to connect to the internets. This is resolved by turning printer sharing off and restarting internet sharing. However that is a (comparatively) giant hassle and I would prefer my mac to work as perfectly as it should.
Help?

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.nat.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
(Then Trash the original of this one, as "moving" it only copies it.)
Then reboot once more.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
EDIT: added a couple of things.

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